First of all we would discuss with you all the different ways of making money online, we recommend you to read this page (“
How to earn money online?”) before hovering over to this page…
So after you are able to differentiate between affiliate programs and few other programs now we should move towards the basics of affiliate marketing.
What is affiliate marketing?
Affiliate marketing is same as you are selling some company’s product and you are getting some commission for it, take an example of an Ice-cream vendor, he collects ice-cream trolley containing tasty ice-creams and sells it to its consumers, and at the end when his selling is over he goes to Ice-cream producer company and takes commission, same is with affiliate marketing but here you don’t have to do anything physically, you do not have to interact with your affiliate partner that is product manufacturing company whose product you are selling or promoting, you don’t have to interact with your customers all you need to do is to sell, promote the companies product, I make it clear here that
you do not get commission for promoting a product, but the more you promote the more you will be able to find interested buyers.
So now you are clear with what is affiliate marketing. Now we move forward..
What are the pre-requisites?…
All you need to have for becoming an affiliate marketer is a
Credit card and a
smart Brain, so if you have these two things with you, you can certainly hope to make a good amount of money, if not then at least a decent income as an extra pocket money, if you are a student this is the best way to make some money for your pocket and filling up the bugs for parties, though I would say that the more you investigate on Affiliate marketing the more you will be able to make online, so just don’t expect that opening an account in some affiliate program site, you are done and money will be flowing into your pocket, all it depends on your brain, hence the requisite is a Smart brain.
What to do to get started?….
To get started with affiliate marketing you just need to open an account in clickbank, amazon affiliate programs and ebay, there are many but these three stand out the best… though there are few more ways I would be discussing later, oh yeah later… So after opening an account in any of these three affiliate programs, I would recommend at the start you should just join clickbank as they sell only digital products and customers can use their product immediately after they download. Now you need to open a PayPal account for transferring your money online via net, this PayPal makes you safe from credit card fraud online. Though you have an option of payment through cheque but that’s cumbersome.
After you have your account activated in clickBank and PayPal, simply collect the links from the program you have joined and place them in your blog or static site, remember you need to have a good amount of traffic, I do not posses a good amount of traffic so I am just using facebook for affiliate links, or if you don’t posses a site then place them at your friend’s site or blog for free, these options are free here you need not invest anything. ok! Now what if you don’t have your site or blog?
What if you Don’t have your site or blog?
No worries, all you need to do is to find a blog which has good amount of traffic usually page rank 1,2,3 or more in Google search engine. Now suppose you have chosen a product related to “6 pack abs”, make a search on Google on how to make six-pack abs, you will see a lot of sites but choose few at the top and look for advertising section, follow the suggestion to get your ad(
an image with a link that you have taken from your affiliate program related to “6 pack abs” ) on that site for some money to pay usually $4 for a week or $30 or more for a month… now whenever a visitor to that site clicks on your ad and buys it you get a commission for that, make sure that you have joined a plan which is profitable, we have seen people going into losses, paying more for advertisement and gaining less commission.
The other way is to join the newly launched
facebook targeted ads plan, all you need to have is a facebook account, you might have seen ads at the sidebar in your profile, what you have noticed on those ads, have you seen that those ads do appear according to your interest, for instance if you are interested in dating and you have given this information at the starting of the sign up you will see ads appearing for dating sites and others. So just get busy and try facebook for affiliate programs.
The last option is to open your blog for free. And gain some traffic out there, write few nice and interesting articles for your readers and hope for the best, to know how to have your own blog running
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